Newly planted trees, meanwhile, are unable to absorb that carbon at the same rate as older trees.
Newly planted trees, for instance, need several years to mature before they begin absorbing significant amounts of carbon dioxide.
Those areas reflect as much as 90% of the sun's light, whereas if you planted trees there they would reflect only about 10%.
Puppetry continues to be one of the fastest growing elements in the Fringe programme with a range of shows from One Eye Gone to The Man Who Planted Trees.
They even planted trees to cut dust that flows in from the Gobi Desert, but today, today was one of the worst days we've seen in the week we've been here.
Employees (and sometimes their kids as well) have cleaned up New Hampshire beaches, planted trees were planted in Germany and Thailand, improved urban spaces improved in Spain, picked up rubbish picked up in Japan, and planted, weeded and fertilized a field of tree seedlings in China.
Newly-planted native trees have also been reintroduced to help preserve the habitat of the lesser horseshoe bat.
He also defended his record as a leader who has planted many trees.
He also planted laurel trees to sell firewood and built a tomato-plant nursery.
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The galleries have been inserted into a grand edifice of classrooms, a library, an auditorium, offices, conservation facilities, indoor and outdoor meeting spaces, and an atrium planted with trees and hanging vines.
Its downtown is a wholly different place, with chic Middle Eastern restaurants along Ben Gurion Avenue, freshly planted palm trees in Paris Square and throngs of tourists skipping off cruise ships in the renovated port.
He improved the water supply, cleared slums, tackled pollution and planted thousands of trees.
Under the scheme, non-native trees planted in the 18th and 19th centuries will be replaced with native species.
In 2010 the Welsh Assembly declared it wanted 100, 000 hectares (247, 000 acres) of trees planted over 20 years.
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From here, goats and trekkers climb onto Jebel Toubkal's hunched shoulders, which are freckled with pine trees planted in a reforestation initiative.
Lula has tended the orchard but planted no new trees, critics say.
University Place, with just eight miles, has built 146 acres of parks, planted thousands of trees, developed a police department, sidewalks and streetlights.
The Port Authority, which owns the property, replanted some shrubs and around the perimeter planted 17 young trees, five of them dedicated to victims of the 1993 and Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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But plenty of other groups have left their mark: behind one stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard all the gardens are planted with bonsai trees, the work of a colony of Japanese who settled there after internment during the second world war.
As this initiative has been going since 2004, it's hard to see how it qualifies as "new" - nor, as it's planted seven million trees in those eight years, what guarantees the planting of another 93 million in just five years.
At the beginning of the rains, both food crops and leguminous trees are planted.
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The bushy pine and Norway spruce trees I planted serve as a place to build nests.
That means giving a voice to local communities and ensuring that trees are planted as well as felled.
By July, 30 apple, pear, cherry and plum trees were planted with help from professional arborists at the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation.
Two of the persimmon trees are planted at the top terrace, along with a hardy kiwi vine dangling from the deck above.
And amazingly, they planted 100, 000 trees in less than six years.
Hill farmers who planted 120, 000 trees and shrubs, restored neglected woods and more than 10 miles (16km) of hedges have been thanked for their work.
The Ring is a circle of beech trees, planted on a hilltop that had been the site of Bronze Age and Iron Age fortifications, and a Roman temple.
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